This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

One thing to keep in mind right now is that September Recess is in effect and all the Reps and Senators won't be back in session until September 29th. So what can you do in the coming week? Simple. Find out if your Rep or Senator is hosting a Townhall and attend it. 5calls can help with this.

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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

adult swim -- this was supposed to be a quick doodle and then i spent the entire day on it because my current fixation is what if diapersuit but in water so i put the horses in the pool

This is absolutely BRILLIANT They didn't listen to our feedback, now we need to ESCALATE Bsky is at 3.4⭐ - let's see how quick we can tank that! Don't know what to write? Copy/paste mine or use it as a starting point! #SaveSpeech #BskyCensorship

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Rosa who?

Honestly, what Kimmel SHOULD do is tell Bob Iger to kiss his ass. He's getting back on the air, which kinda gives Disney an easy out from this, because most folks will probably just resub now that they effectively got the outcome they wanted. Kimmel has the opportunity to REALLY fuck them over.

Weird how this *remains relevant*

"bad trans rep" and it's a character that looks like my friends, lover, or ME

Why the shift back to sales pitches? Maybe influencers online have conditioned people to listen to the "here's my product, now go buy it" approach again. Also, it's much cheaper to make than a commercial with effort and artistry behind it.

hard to believe this country doesn’t want dead kids when we punish kids for preventing the Leading Cause of Death For Kids

CW ABDL Reupload Meek is They/It

I don't know who made this but I feel it keenly.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

I really need you guys to internalize this. Government and corporations ripped Kimmel off the air for lightly badmouthing their behavior. Coordinated pushback by us is what forced them to cave in and put Kimmel back on air. Again. The fascists caved in *due to coordinated pushback.*

This is super easy to do, and given the new changes seem to actively silence victims of sexual violence unless they make their trauma “educational”, it should be pretty easy to convincingly express your opposition

No moaning during therapy. trying out a simpler coloring method for colored sketches

They are running this ad in blue cities in blue states. It’s propaganda intended to create an “internal opposition force”

AGAIN?!

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

Loona doesn't know he's borrowing her collar. (Alts in replies) #ABDL #ABDLArt #FurryABDL

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

Support porn 🫶 Censorship always starts with the “acceptable” targets and then slowly widens its nets until it’s banning things like “female-presenting nipples” or being openly queer. Be weird and stay weird

Anna Paulina Luna just made yet another comparison between Charlie Kirk and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Again: Kirk very publicly and enthusiastically criticized King within the past year and a half, calling the Civil Rights icon "a bad guy" and decrying the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a "mistake."

No particular reason

They're already shadow banning comments that don't agree whole heartedly agree with their restrictions to art.

The reason a Bluesky blackout doesn’t make sense as a plan is because it does not cause Bluesky any problems. They don’t earn money from engagement atm; Their only source of revenue is paid services. If everyone stops posting, the subs stay; there’s no financial consequence they need to respond to.

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER Do you like art on the site? Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform. Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Yeah, holy shit. I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them. Fucking cowards. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

please don't do this -bsky isn't monetised and being paid by activity rn so this won't hurt them -they want us to be quiet so being quiet only helps them -theres a fixed end date so they don't need to make any actions, they know when "the pain" will end -spend the week loudly complaining instead

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

tired of all these websites being wishy-washy, dancing to appease both the userbase and the payment processors / shareholders breathing down their necks at this point either allow everything or just rip off the bandage outright and brand yourself the youtube kids of microblogging

as someone who witnessed "permissible adult content" debacles on tumblr and furrylife online and furaffinity and pillowfort and buzzly and deviantart and twitter and sheezy, not to mention visa/mastercard, it seems the result is often plainly: trying to please everyone, but ending up pleasing no one

Bsky: "We keep SA victims safe, by keeping them TF OFF our platform if they aren't as utterly disgusted by noncon art as we normies are! SA victims are supposed to be pure, chaste, infantile, and fawn when they see anything loosely representing their experiences, until a man comforts em, goddammit!"

Disney/ABC is bending the knee to Donald Trump. Let them know that you aren't going to take it. This is a fight for free speech. We lose by not fighting back.

The same goes for Paramount who cancelled Colbert for the same reason.

Also, people did not stop posting porn on tumblr after the ban. They stopped tagging. You can take fire and gasoline to a site and porn will still be there, now just out there without any protections that used to make it safe to navigate

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

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Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/